On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Pork E. Pigg wrote:
> I want to set up graphic login (init 5) and am having a problem.
>
> I can get it to work but, the login defaults to 8bpp and I want 16. I've
> looked thru 4 books, not counting Doctor Linux, trying to find info.
> I've scanned info in the man pages and docs in the X11 dir. I've rerun
> Xconfigurator and set it up with only 16. I've commented out everything
> not 16bpp-related in XF86Config. No matter what I tried, it came up in
> 8bpp.
I am not using my Linux box right now so I cannot quote the exact
contents of the files, but one of the files in /etc/X11/xdm has a line
similar to:
:0 /some/path/X
change that to:
:0 /some/path/X -bpp 16
cheers,
Hossein
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